And maybe a bag of shared jelly beans will provide all the help they need. When Meg and Riley end up together in the nurse’s office one day, both girls think they’ve worked each other out, but what if they’ve got it all wrong? On the brink of moving on to junior high, Riley and Meg must find the courage to discover who they really want to be. Nova has written three middle-grade books in the Choose Your Own Ever After series, and three young adult novels, including Everything is Changed, a 2017 CBCA Notable Book. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are respectfully cautioned that this website contains images of people who have passed away.

So she keeps her testing under wraps…and an emergency bag of jelly beans on hand. She has written for film and TV, including the childrens series Backyard Science, H20 and Pixel Pinkie. Nova Weetman is the Australian author of books including Sick Bay, The Secrets We Keep, The Secrets We Share and Everything is Changed. Riley knows fitting in at her new school would be a lot easier if her friends were more understanding of her type 1 diabetes.

Luckily, the nurse’s office provides a welcome escape from classmates who don’t understand…and snacks when food runs out at home. Meg spends her days hoping no one thinks too hard about why she wears the same t-shirt and slippers to school every day. She lives with her partner, a playwright, and their two children in Brunswick, Australia. Two girls form an unlikely friendship during their shared time in the school nurse’s office in this heartfelt middle grade novel for fans of Save Me a Seat and Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. Nova Weetman wrote short fiction and children’s television before publishing her first YA novel, The Haunting of Lily Frost, in 2014.

Everything is Changed by Nova Weetman